CANADIAN MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 18336, 25 July 1923, Page 5

CANADIAN MURDER

CASE OF FATHER DELORME. JURY DISAGREES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, July 23. In tho Delorme trial at Montreal tho jury disagreed after forty-six hours’ deliberation—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Last July tho authorities at Montreal arrested Father Adelaird Delorme, a Roman Catholic priest, on a charge of murdering his half-brother, Raoul, a college student. It was stated that the priest obtained 25,000 dollars on a life insurance policy. The brother disappeared, and later was .found dead. The policy and a will made the priest his brother’s heir. Dr Dorome, provincial autopist, in closing tho session of the inquest, gave a demonstration, using a tailor's dummy dressed in Raoul’s clothing, showing how the youth was shot. A doctor testified that the feathers found in Delorme’s automobile and others in a quilt around the victim’s head were similar. He said that efforts had been made to wash the bloodstains from Delorme’s car, and his handwriting was upon a package containing a watch belonging to Raoul, which had been mailed to the detectives. The retrial was commenced about a month, ago.]